Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives
Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler
[Typological Studies in Language, 74] 2008. viii, 307 pp.
Silvia Adler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Adler plays a role.
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Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2013 Silent and semi-silent arguments in the graphic novel Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics, pp. 389–402 | Article
This study focuses on the iconographic channel of the graphic novel as a particular occurrence of silence. In Comics, images provide not only the data required for the development of narration; they also render available the concrete circumstances of the enunciation and often orient the reader… read more
2008 French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of the absolute use Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives, Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler (eds.), pp. 17–35 | Article
In respect of their absolute use, without complement, French sequences sharing the pattern [Preposition – Definite article – Noun – Preposition] have to be subcategorized by lexical and by semantic parameters. These sequences are frequently classified as “prepositional locutions” in the French… read more
2008 De la possibilité de suppression du régime des expressions prépositives de concession, comparaison, addition et destination Revue Romane 43:1, pp. 151–170 | Article
This article pursues a series of studies on French expressions commonly called “prepositional locutions” whose dual goal is, first, the treatment of their lexical status and, second, the possibilities of anaphorisation by a simple suppression of their complement, operation often attributed to the… read more
2008 Introduction Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives, Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Miscellaneous
2007 Au delà de l’espace et du temps: Étude comparée d’un marqueur de gradation Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:2, pp. 163–179 | Article
The present paper deals with the preposition au-delà de as a scalarity marker in three languages — French, English and Hebrew — representing each a distinct family: Roman, Germanic and Semitic, respectively. Our study is performed in the theoretical framework of the semantics of degree (cf. J.… read more